Handling platform specific code

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Hi,

I am writing a code generator to generate language bindings in C# for an existing C++ API using clang libtooling.

Our C++ interface has platform specific code. In order to handle this in the code generation, I see two possible approaches.

  1. Do a build such that all platforms are defined such that all possible code is included in the build
  2. Run clang libtooling on each platform, and merge the resulting code.

In either case, clang::PPCallbacks looks great for getting preprocessor information.
#if defined (WIN_32)
…
#endif

I have two questions

  1. It would be a lot easier to run the code generation on one platform, using approach #1 above, while enabling all the platform specific code. The blocker to this issue is that one platform’s specific definitions won’t be available on another platform. Is there a way to invoke clang such that it continues, without error, if it encounters types that it does not recognize?
  2. While using the PPCallbacks interface, we are notified when a #if, #elif, #else, #endif is present and provided a sourceRange. Is the correct way to determine what was inside these preprocessor definitions to compare the source ranges from the end of the #if to the start of the #endif?

Thanks,
Justin